Hannibal (2001) - FAQ The content of this page was created directly by users and has not been screened or verified by IMDb staff. Visit our FAQ Help to learn more FAQ How much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie? For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Hannibal can be found at here . What is 'Hannibal' about? Ten years after the events in The Silence of the Lambs, FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling ( Julianne Moore ) is assigned to the case of Mason Verger ( Gary Oldman ), the only surviving, but severely disfigured, victim of cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter ( Anthony Hopkins ), and Verger wants revenge. Lecter, who disappeared (after the events in The Silence of the Lambs), is currently living in Florence, Italy as a library curator under the assumed name of Dr Fell.

Recently disgraced for a bungled drug raid, Clarice is contacted by a sympathetic Lecter. Now that Lecter's whereabouts are known, the hunt for Lecter begins. Is "Hannibal" based on a book? Hannibal is based on a 1999 novel of the same name by American writer Thomas Harris. The novel was adapted for the movie by American screenwriters David Mamet and Steven Zaillian. Hannibal is the film sequel to The Silence of the Lambs (1991). It was followed by Red Dragon (2002) and Hannibal Rising (2007), both adapted from novels by Thomas Harris and written as prequels to The Silence of the Lambs. Prior to The Silence of the Lambs, there was another Hannibal Lecter movie, Manhunter (1986), also based on Harris' 1981 novel, Red Dragon, but not considered to be part of The Silence of the Lambs franchise. Who from "The Silence of the Lambs" is back in "Hannibal"?

Anthony Hopkins reprises his role as the cannibalistic serial killer, Hannibal Lecter, this time in the guise of Dr Fell, new curator of the Capponi Library in Florence, Italy. FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling is also back, although she is played by Julianne Moore, not Jodie Foster . Barney Matthews ( Frankie Faison ), the nurse who admitted Clarice to the locked row of cells in which Lector was being held at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, is seen again in a small part at the beginning of the movie. Justice Department official Paul Krendler, played by Ray Liotta rather than Ron Vawter , returns in an expanded and more sinister role. Added to the cast is Gary Oldman playing Mason Verger, a pedophile horribly disfigured by Lecter and the only one of his victims to survive. Also added to the main cast is Chief Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi ( Giancarlo Giannini ) of the Florence Questura, who recognizes Fell as Lecter and attempts to capture him for Verger. Weren't there really two surviving victims? According to the film, Mason Verger is the only surviving victim of Dr.

Lecter's 14 victims. In the novels, it is said that there are three known surviving victims: (1) Verger, (2) an unnamed victim residing in a mental hospital in Colorado, and (3) Will Graham from Red Dragon. Although the novel Red Dragon was written in 1981, before The Silence of the Lambs (1988) and Hannibal (1999), it wasn't filmed until 2002, after the filming of The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Hannibal (2001), so the character of Will Graham hadn't yet been introduced to the Hannibal franchise. Why did Mason Verger cut off his own face? Mason was a sexual deviant who was also infatuated with Lecter. Lecter had given him a 'popper' [in the book, a mixture of hallucinogenic and hypnotic drugs] before suggesting that he cut off his face and feed it to the dogs. Verger was based on the real case of a man named Michael who, while under the influence of PCP, did the same thing -- cut off parts of his face and fed them to some dogs.

For more information on Michael, see here . Why was Mason Verger in a wheel chair? This was another mishap from his encounter with Hannibal Lecter. In the film, when Verger is explaining how Lecter gave him the popper and told him to cut off his face, Verger is seen swinging from some form of rope. The book goes into slightly more detail than the film. Basically, however, the rope was a sexual device, a sort of noose that was used for auto-erotic asphyxiation. After Verger was finished cutting off his own face, he says that Lecter broke his neck with the noose. This however, didn't kill him but left him paraplegic. What is the song that is being played at the opera that Pazzi and Lecter attend? The song is called Vide Cor Meum (See My Heart). Composed especially for the movie by Patrick Cassidy, the song was later used in Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven (2005). Clarice mentions that Hannibal killed a musician called Benjamin Raspail. Didn't Hannibal deny killing Raspail in "Silence of the Lambs"? Indeed he did.

Benjamin Raspail was the man whose severed head was found by Clarice in the locked storage garage in the beginning of Silence of the Lambs. In that movie, Hannibal Lecter later identifies the head as belonging to Raspail, but claims not to have killed him; he merely admits to have found Raspail's remains after he missed several appointments, and simply hid them. Lecter claims that Raspail was killed by his (Raspail's) lover, who is the same person as Buffalo Bill. However, during the conversation between Clarice and Paul Krendler in the archives in Hannibal, Clarice casually mentions that Hannibal once killed Benjamin Raspail in order to improve the quality of the orchestra Raspail played in, since he was such a dreadful player. This claim seems to be confirmed in the opening scene of Red Dragon , where Lecter feeds parts of a flautist's corpse to the unwitting members of the orchestra board, though this flautist is never mentioned by name in either the film or the credits. In the novels Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs, the events are told a bit differently.

The head that Clarice finds in the storage locker belonged to Raspail's boyfriend Klaus. Klaus was actually killed and beheaded by a jealous Jame Gumb/Buffalo Bill, who was once Raspail's lover. Raspail found Klaus' head, kept it in his garage and told his psychiatrist, Hannibal Lecter, about it. Raspail went missing shortly thereafter, and his body found a few days later, missing its pancreas and thymus. Hannibal was caught several days later, and found to be the so-called Chesapeake Ripper, who had already made nine victims. During his trial, Hannibal admitted to feeding Raspail's organs to the orchestra board. In the movie adaptation of Silence of the Lambs, most of this information was not used or changed. Most references to the Red Dragon novel (including Will Graham's earlier interaction with Lecter) were purposely removed to make Silence a stand-alone movie, and possibly to avoid legal issues (since the studio did not own the rights to either the Red Dragon novel, nor its first adaptation, Manhunter ). The character of Klaus was omitted completely, perhaps to avoid introducing characters that had no significant role in the plot.

However, since Clarice finding a severed head was so central in the progress of the plot, this was kept in; however, the victim was changed from Klaus to Raspail, and was explicitly established as Gumb's very first kill (in the book, Gumb had already killed his grandparents at age 10). From what we can tell, the movies Hannibal and Red Dragon followed the continuity established in the books, so this seems like a deliberate retcon without a clear in-universe explanation. One possibility could be that Hannibal is still playing a game with Clarice in Silence of the Lambs, by providing her with false information, to see how quickly she can see through his lies. Note that Hannibal did the same with her when he told her to look for Ms Moffet, (an anagram for "the rest of me") and with senator Martin, providing her with a false name of the killer, as his way to toy with people. Did Hannibal kill Dr. Chilton? The Silence of the Lambs is Chilton's last appearance in the franchise, in both the novels and the films.

It is never out right stated whether Hannibal did kill and cannibalize Chilton during the time between The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. In the novel, it is mentioned that Chilton disappeared while on vacation seven years before the events of Hannibal; in the film Barney says that Lecter, when possible, preferred to eat "the rude" and that Chilton "was a bad man". Both statements strongly imply that Lecter did indeed kill and eat Chilton. Why did the boars walk right past Lecter? In Ridley Scott's commentary on the film, he says that the reason they walk right past Lecter is a combination of a) the fact that Lecter is standing still (whether they consider him no harm or an inadequate food supply is unclear), and b) the boars feel an "animal connection" of sorts with Lecter (in other words, they sense Lecter as another animal and leave him alone). Another possibility is that the hogs were attracted to blood and were accustomed to feeding while hearing screams. Since Lecter wasn't screaming and had no blood on him, they walked past him and went straight to the screams.

In the novel of Hannibal, it is said that the boars smelled no fear on him, so they went past him to eat the screamers. How does the movie end? Stripped of her gun and her FBI status, Clarice goes alone to the Verger estate to look for Lecter. She finds him strapped down and about to be fed to Verger's vicious boars. She shoots the two henchmen guarding him, one fatally, the other just wounding him. Just as Clarice sets Lecter free, the boars break out through the gate and Verger arrives to watch the carnage. One of Verger's henchmen shoots Clarice, so Lecter takes her into his arms as the boars go after the two downed henchmen. Verger orders his personal physician, Dr Cordell, to go into the swarming mass of squealing, ravenous boars to retrieve a gun, but Lecter convinces Cordell (who greatly dislikes Verger) to feed Verger to the boars and blame it on Lecter. Lecter takes the barely conscious Clarice to Krendler's lakehouse, where he removes the bullet and tends to her wound.

When Clarice awakens from a morphine-induced sleep, she laboriously makes her way to a telephone to call for backup and then downstairs where she finds Lecter preparing an elegant dinner for Krendler, who appears to be heavily drugged. Clarice is horrified when she sees Lecter lift off the top of Krendler's skull, scoop out a portion of his brain, sautï¿½ it, and feed it to Krendler. When Krendler insults Clarice, Lecter wheels Krendler to the kitchen and prepares to make his getaway, leaving Krendler to die and knowing that Clarice has called the FBI. Clarice tries to hit him with a candlestick, but Lecter catches her hair in the refrigerator door. He kisses her and is about to walk away when she slaps a cuff on his wrist and cuffs him to herself. When she refuses to give him the key, Lecter picks up a meat cleaver. "This is really going to hurt," he says, and the cleaver comes down. In the next scene, Clarice is standing over the lake, watching for any signs of Lecter, who has disappeared.

Her backup arrives, and Clarice identifies herself but says nothing about Hannibal Lecter getting away. In the final scene, Lecter is seated on an airplane, one of his own hands missing, about to enjoy his carry-on lunch. A small boy looks curiously into the box and asks what some of the food is. One of the containers holds what looks like sautï¿½ed brain. Lecter offers the boy a bite. Did Hannibal really chop off his hand? It's never made certain. Hannibal, when he says "above or below the wrist?" suggests that he did but he could have been threatening to cut off Clarice's hand in order to scare her into giving him the key. It's also possible Hannibal chopped off only his thumb to wriggle out of the cuff. What is certain is that he definitely did not try to cut through the chain on the cuffs; it would have been too unbelievable and he clearly doesn't have the use of that hand in the final scene. Why didn't Jodie Foster return to play Clarice Starling? In an interview for Total Film magazine, Foster said: The official reason I didn't do Hannibal is I was doing another movie, Flora Plum.

So I get to say, in a nice dignified way, that I wasn't available when that movie was being shot... Clarice meant so much to Jonathan and I, she really did, and I know it sounds kind of strange to say but there was no way that either of us could really trample on her. Is that you, Clarice? | Film | The Guardian The Guardian The Observer Is that you, Clarice? Hannibal, the long awaited sequel to The Silence Of The Lambs, has finally been cast - without Jodie Foster. Instead, Julianne Moore is to play FBI agent Clarice Starling. Damon Wise explains the politics of casting and wonders how Moore will fare against Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter Sunday 19 March 2000 12.45 EST First published on Sunday 19 March 2000 12.45 EST Share on Messenger Close It's Valentine's Day and Julianne Moore is running late. At 1.14pm, after a press conference for Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia was due to begin, the scowling head of the Berlin Film Festival made a solemn announcement to waiting reporters.

Ms Moore, he said, was still in her hotel room and wouldn't be with us for some time. She was having her hair done, he sighed. But why was our German friend surprised? Moore is no longer just a performer, nor even an artist. She is a movie star . (With all the necessary hair care which that entails.) This transition has happened almost imperceptibly. One minute she was a repertory player in arty ensemble films such as Robert Altman's Short Cuts, Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights and her partner Bart Freundlich's The Myth Of Fingerprints; then suddenly she went overground, playing opposite Ralph Fiennes in The End Of The Affair and gathering an impressive best actress Oscar nomination for her efforts. A barometer of her appeal is that Moore's 'beauty regime' warranted a two-page spread in a recent issue of the National Enquirer. When she finally made her entrance in Berlin, Moore was rapturously received and her hair, of course, was perfect. Midway through, a smartly dressed European took the microphone - but he didn't have a question. 'Julianne? Mrs Julianne Moore?' he began in faltering English.

'You know today is the Valentine's Day, no? I have a present for you - because you are so nice .' Approaching the podium, he handed her a giant, heart-shaped red balloon. There was laughter, applause, and the actress blushed. Because, for now, Julianne Moore is one of America's sweethearts. So when Jodie Foster announced her decision to bow out of Hannibal , the long-awaited sequel to The Silence of The Lambs, to be directed by Ridley Scott, it seemed perfectly logical that Moore would make the short list. And it also reflects our rather perverse fascination with serious crime. Looking at the other names considered for the role of FBI agent Clarice Starling, the plucky young hick who develops a dangerous empathy with jailed murderer Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, there's a curious consistency. Gillian Anderson, Hilary Swank. Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Ashley Judd, Gwyneth Paltrow. The keywords here seem to be intelligent, vulnerable, fearless and - most important of all - beautiful. Foster's decision to drop out, ostensibly to direct the more personal Flora's Plum, has prompted a lot of rumours about the production.

First, that she was asking too much (some where in the Travolta league of $20 million plus). Then it was said she found the novel too disturbing and wanted to change Harris's surreal ending (in which Clarice goes native, so to speak), supposedly to the writer's annoyance. Then there was the matter of the script, finished last autumn by playwright David Mamet, in the gap between directing The Winslow Boy and State Of Maine, and given a subsequent polish by Schindler's List writer Steve Zail lian. Reports suggest that Foster perhaps felt the balance of power had shifted, and that the actress wasn't about to let Clarice take a back seat to the now-showboating Lecter. Moore, who announced she was 'very, very excited' about the role while negotiations were being finalised during her time in Berlin, does not seem fazed by following in Foster's footsteps. Which is brave, because there really doesn't seem to be much of a precedent. Sequels are usually commissioned for their stars, not their characters, as a quick glance at the roster of movie franchises shows: Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, Scream.

One of the rare exceptions is RoboCop, which found a new star for its third instalment, though few saw beyond the leading man's full-face helmet to realise it wasn't Peter Weller. In fact, the only recent examples of actors given the challenge of facing comparison with their predecessors is in the world of the prequel: for example, Robert De Niro succeeding Marlon Brando as the young Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, or Ewan McGregor donning Alec Guiness's mantle to play the young Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars Episode 1. On second glance, it would seem the Hannibal cycle has more in common with the Bond franchise; indeed, when Jonathan Demme's adaptation of The Silence Of The Lambs swept the 1991 Oscars, nobody seemed too concerned that Lecter had already made his big-screen debut some five years before in Michael Mann's Manhunter, an adaptation of Harris's second book, Red Dragon. Here, Lecter was played by Brian Cox, a bigger, arguably more masculine alternative to Anthony Hopkins's gentrified performance.

The two Lecters both have their fans, both very different in their attitudes to the two films, but - interestingly - their success is simply a matter of preference. Because, going back to Harris's original novels, there really is no blueprint for the definitive Lecter. Refer to chapter seven of Red Dragon , in which Detective Will Graham first visits Lecter (Mann inexplicably changed the name to Lecktor for the film adaptation) in the Chesapeake State Hospital For The Criminally Insane. Harris tells us little or nothing about Lecter, except that 'his eyes are maroon and they reflect the light redly in tiny points'. His only elaboration is that he 'is a small, lithe man. Very neat.' Compare this with chapter two of The Silence Of The Lambs : '[Clarice] could see that he was small, sleek; in his hands and arms she saw wiry strength like her own.' And a paragraph later: 'Dr Lecter's eyes are maroon and they reflect the light in pinpoints of red.' Which brings us to Clarice Starling.

When the young FBI agent makes her entrance, all we know is that she has 'grass in her hair and grass stains on her FBI Academy windbreaker from diving to the ground under fire in an arrest problem on the range'. Harris deliberately doesn't give us too many physical clues as to Clarice's identity - this he leaves to Lecter, who famously dissects her personality during their first, tense meeting. Instead, we get a mental image of Clarice in which only her strengths and weaknesses really register, and if Moore is smart, she presumably understands that Clarice and Dr Lecter have a life beyond their actors. Put simply, Harris's trilogy is an archetypal modern fable, a timeless beauty and the beast saga. And just as Hannibal's physical attributes are irrelevant to this intellectual King Kong, so are Clarice Starling's. It's her mind that matters and her mind we care about, so it's no accident that only a certain type of actress could fit the bill.

By way of illustration, the Hannibal short list was a select and prestigious elite - a far cry from the hullabaloo surrounding the casting of Charlie's Angels , in which every actress in Hollywood, from Jennifer Lopez to Catherine Zeta Jones, was said to be joining Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz for the camp action romp. That the part went to the relatively smalltime TV star Lucy Liu speaks volumes. In the hands of Ridley Scott, Hannibal was never going to go that far downmarket. Because Scott, director of post-feminist Western Thelma And Louise , would undoubtedly know that the part of Hannibal Lecter's bloody valentine would be a magnet to some of Hollywood's most sophisticated actresses. 'Good roles for women are very hard to come by,' Moore told reporters in Berlin, 'because obviously the film business is based on economics. It's not interested in making movies about people and ideas, it's usually about things exploding and spending lots of money.' When the $70m Hannibal starts shooting in May, Moore will pick up her biggest pay-cheque yet, said to be around the $3m mark (but still only a fraction of Hopkins's salary).

With Clarice Starling she may have found the perfect balance between commerce and art. The part is intelligent, accessible and, best of all, lucrative. Just right for any actress who wants to have her cake - or should that be pound of flesh? - and eat it. Foster and Moore: a tale of two Starlings Jodie Foster Age: 37 Number of films made: 32 Awards: Best actress Oscars for The Accused and The Silence of The Lambs . Also nominated for Nell and Taxi Driver (best supporting actress). Career breakthrough: Playing streetwise teenage prostitute in Taxi Driver. On Clarice Starling: 'I don't feel like I own her, but I know everything about her. She's the most specific character I've ever played. She's the kind of person if you said, "Would she wear an orange miniskirt?" I know exactly what the answer is.' Others on Foster: 'If God had designed a perfect acting machine it would be pretty close to Jodie,' says Jon Amiel who directed her in Sommersby . Also known as: BLT - 'Bossy Little Thing'. The nickname was devised by Jonathan Kaplan, director of The Accused .

Julianne Moore Age: 39 Number of films made: 23 Awards: Current best actress Oscar nominee for role in The End of the Affair, previously nominated for supporting role in Boogie Nights. Career breakthrough : As Annabella Sciorra's acerbic best friend in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. On Clarice Starling: 'I'm not going to do what Jodie did. She's a great actor, it was a magnificent performance, there's no way I'm going to duplicate it. There's no sense in even thinking about it.' Others on Moore: 'She does it all. She's an artist. When one speaks of Julianne Moore, it's like speaking of Bette Davis,' says Robert Altman who directed her in Short Cuts . Also known as: The Hardest Working Woman in Hollywood. Last year she starred in five films: Cookie's Fortune, An Ideal Husband, A Map of the World, Magnolia and The End of the Affair. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - IMDb IMDb 18 January 2017 8:17 PM, UTC NEWS There was an error trying to load your rating for this title.

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Director: Christopher Nolan Edit Storyline FBI trainee Clarice Starling works hard to advance her career, including trying to hide or put behind her West Virginia roots, of which if some knew would automatically classify her as being backward or white trash. After graduation, she aspires to work in the agency's Behavioral Science Unit under the leadership of Jack Crawford. While she is still a trainee, Crawford does ask her to question Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist imprisoned thus far for eight years in maximum security isolation for being a serial killer, he who cannibalized his victims. Clarice is able to figure out the assignment is to pick Lecter's brains to help them solve another serial murder case, that of someone coined by the media as Buffalo Bill who has so far killed five victims, all located in the eastern US, all young women who are slightly overweight especially around the hips, all who were drowned in natural bodies of water, and all who were stripped of large swaths of skin. She also figures that Crawford... Written by Huggo See All (201) » Taglines: Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Brilliant. Cunning. Psychotic. In his mind lies the clue to a ruthless killer.

- Clarice Starling, FBI. Brilliant. Vulnerable. Alone. She must trust him to stop the killer. See more » Genres: 14 February 1991 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Silence of the Lambs See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia Sean Connery was director Jonathan Demme 's first choice to play Hannibal Lecter, but he turned the part down. Connery later did a similar serial-killer thriller called Just Cause (1995), where Ed Harris plays a sort of bible-bashing, redneck rip-off of Hannibal Lecter. The film was neither a critical or commercial smash like The Silence of the Lambs (1991) was. See more » Goofs During the discussion Clarice has with Hannibal in the cage, she says "Now, please listen to me. We've only got five..." and Hannibal is supposed to interrupt her but it there is a brief pause before Hannibal speaks. It is clear that she stopped talking without being interrupted. See more » Quotes Crazy Credits The producers wish to thank Adele, Bobby and the rest of the gang at Bufa's.

See more » Connections Written by Bruce Licher (as B. Licher), Mark Erskine (as M. Erskine), and Jeff Long (as J. Long) Courtesy of Independent Project Records (Livonia, MI USA) – See all my reviews Sweeping all five major Academy Awards ("Oscars" for Best Movie, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay) is quite an accomplishment. Doing it nearly a year after a film was released is a miracle considering the notoriously short attention span of Oscar voters. It is a powerful example of how great a movie can be when superb writers, directors, actors, and others work at the top of their craft. `Silence of the Lambs' is the story of a young FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) who is summoned to help find one serial killer called `Buffalo Bill.' by interviewing another. Foster's performance is absolutely brilliant. While Anthony Hopkins receives most of the (well-deserved) praise for his chilling portrayal of incarcerated serial killer `Hannibal the Cannibal' Lector', it is Foster's performance that holds the movie together. The fear she shows just behind her eyes makes Clarice's outward courage all the more interesting and vulnerable.

This is the perfect way to play the part because it explains Lector's interest in Clarice. Her only bargaining chip in getting Lector's help is to let him `feed' on her innermost secrets and fears in exchange for his brilliant insights into the psychotic mind. The title of the movie comes from these exchanges and is very poignant. Director Jonathan Demme is masterful. There is one scene late in the movie that I will not spoil. It is one of the most simply brilliant scenes ever staged in a movie. I don't know if all the credit goes to Demme or the writers, but there is a moment in the film where the suspense builds beautifully to a what seems to be a common movie scene. However, through skillful timing of the direction, the audiences assumptions are used against them and when the truth is revealed (hint: it involves a doorbell) it is shocking and induced a collective gasp from the audience I saw it with at the theatre. It set the stage for an edge-of-your seat climax. Do not miss this movie. The movie is incredibly suspenseful and an absolute must see. 333 of 382 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes Clarice Starling | Hannibal Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit In The Silence of the Lambs, Starling is a student at the FBI Academy. She hopes to work at the Behavioral Science Unit, tracking down serial killers and ultimately apprehending them. Her mentor, FBI director Jack Crawford, sends her to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter , a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. He is housed in a Baltimore mental institution. Upon arriving at the asylum for her first interview with Lecter, the asylum manager Frederick Chilton makes a crude pass at her, which she rebuffs; this helps her bond with Lecter, who also despises Chilton. As time passes, Lecter gives Starling information about Buffalo Bill, a currently active serial killer being hunted by the FBI, but only in exchange for personal information, which Crawford has specifically warned her to keep secret from Lecter. She tells Lecter that she was raised in a small town in West Virginia with her father, a police officer. When she was about 10 years old, her father was shot when responding to a robbery; he died a month after the incident.

Starling was sent to live with her uncle on a Montana sheep and horse farm, from which she briefly ran away in horror when she witnessed the lambs being slaughtered (the title of the book refers to her being haunted by the screaming she heard from the lambs). She spent the rest of her childhood in a Lutheran orphanage. According to the novel, Starling attended the University of Virginia as a double major in psychology and criminology. During that time, she spent two summers working as a counselor in a mental health center. Starling first met Jack Crawford when he was a guest lecturer at UVA. His criminology seminars were a factor in her decision to join the FBI. During the investigation, Starling is assigned to coax Lecter into revealing Buffalo Bill's identity; Lecter gives her clues in the form of cryptic, riddling information designed to help Starling figure it out for herself. The two grow to respect each other, so when Lecter escapes during a transfer engineered by Chilton to a state prison in Tennessee, Starling feels that he "would consider it rude" to attack her by surprise and kill her without talking to her first.

Starling deduces from Lecter's hints that Buffalo Bill's first victim had a personal relationship with him, and so goes to the victim's home in Belvedere, Ohio, to interview people who knew her. She unknowingly stumbles onto the killer himself, Jame Gumb (he is living under the alias "Jack Gordon" when they meet). When she sees a Death's Head moth, the same rare kind that Bill stuffs in the throats of each of his victims, flutter through the house, she knows that she has found her man and tries to arrest him. Gumb flees, and Starling follows him into his basement, where his latest victim is alive and screaming for help. Gumb turns off the electricity in the basement, and stalks Starling through the rooms wearing night vision goggles. He is about to shoot her when she hears him behind her and opens fire into the darkness, killing him. The victim is rescued. Weeks later, Lecter writes Starling a letter from a hotel room somewhere in Detroit asking her if the lambs have stopped screaming. The final scene of the novel has Starling sleeping peacefully at a friend's vacation house at the Maryland seashore.

Hannibal Edit In Hannibal, Starling is in her early thirties and a full-fledged FBI agent, although her career has been held back by a vengeful superior, Paul Krendler, at the United States Department of Justice. She takes part in a bungled drug raid, in which she returns fire after a drug kingpin fires at her, using an infant as a hostage; her superiors blame her for the resulting mess, and she is removed from active duty, mostly at Krendler's instigation. She receives a supportive letter from Lecter, who is (unknown to her at the time) residing in Florence, Italy. One of Lecter's surviving victims, a sadistic pedophile named Mason Verger, is searching for Lecter and has offered a huge reward, which a corrupt Florentine police inspector named Pazzi tries to claim when he deduces Lecter's true identity in Florence. Starling finds out that Lecter is in Florence and attempts to warn Pazzi. As Starling predicted, Lecter knows about the plot to capture him and, as a result, he kills Pazzi. Lecter then flees to the United States and immediately starts to follow Starling.

Starling, meanwhile, is being harassed at the FBI by various corrupt agents, especially by Krendler, who is secretly assisting Verger in his attempt to capture Lecter. Starling attempts to find Lecter first, not only to capture him but also to save him from Verger. Krendler attempts to frame Starling in a scheme planned by Verger, alleging she sent coded newspaper messages to Lecter; this only results in her being suspended, but she is now powerless to stop Verger's men. Lecter is captured by Verger, who plans to feed him to a pack of specially bred wild boars. Julianne Moore as Starling in Hannibal; Lecter is in the background. Starling is aware that Lecter is being held by Verger, so she attempts to save him. She is wounded in the ensuing gunfight; Lecter rescues her and nurses her back to health. He then subjects her to a regimen of mind-altering drugs]] and classical conditioning in an attempt to make her believe she is his long-dead sister, Mischa . During this time, Lecter captures Krendler and performs a craniotomy on him while he is still alive.

During an elaborate dinner, Lecter scoops spoonfuls of Krendler's forebrain to saute with lemon and capers. In the novel, he feeds Krendler's brain to Starling, who finds it delicious. Lecter's plan to brainwash Starling ultimately fails, as she refuses to have her own personality sublimated. Then, in the novel's most controversial sequence, she opens her dress and offers her breast to Lecter; he accepts her offer and the two became lovers. They disappear together, only to be sighted again three years later entering the Teatro Colón opera house in Buenos Aires by former orderly Barney Matthews , who had befriended and respected Lecter while he was incarcerated in Baltimore. Fearing for his life, Barney leaves Buenos Aires immediately, never to return. Alternate Ending The film adaptation of Hannibal does not feature the brainwashing storyline; instead, Starling handcuffs herself to Lecter to try and trap him, with Lecter cutting off his own hand to escape the handcuffs rather than harm her.

Trivia Jodie Foster Declines "Hannibal's" Invite Tweet Mar 19, 2001 Looks like Hannibal Lecter will have to play quid pro quo with some other actress besides Jodie Foster . Today’s Daily Variety reports that the Oscar-winning star has formally passed on the offer to reprise her role as FBI Agent Clarice Starling in “Hannibal,” the much-delayed and much-awaited sequel to “ Silence of the Lambs .” News of Foster ‘s decision comes at a time when the “Hannibal” project (reputedly long-plagued by script woes) was beginning to look promising. Anthony Hopkins last week finally agreed to return as man-eating lead villain Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Hopkins ‘ decision to join the film had many thinking Foster would sign up, too. In November, Foster , apparently displeased with the portrayal of her character in the Thomas Harris eponymous follow-up novel, told W magazine that she would not play Starling “with negative attributed she’s never have.” The actress later denied that she meant she’d turned down “Hannibal,” adding that she hadn’t read the script.

Producers, meanwhile, went ahead with their full-court press to land Foster , bringing in Oscar-winner Steve Zaillian (“ Schindler’s List “) to do a rewrite. While the script got thumbs up from Anthony Hopkins , director Ridley Scott (a sub for original “ Lambs ” director Jonathan Demme ) and producer Dino De Laurentiis , it didn’t seal the deal with Foster . The revised script apparently had less appeal than Claire Danes . Instead of “Hannibal,” Foster is planning to direct Danes in the drama “Flora Plum,” Variety says. Danes will take a year off from her studies at Yale ( Foster ‘s alma mater) to be in the picture. Both “Hannibal” and “Flora Plum” are tentatively scheduled to begin production in early spring. Foster , Hopkins and Demme each won Oscars for 1991’s “ Lambs .” Meanwhile, there’s more trouble for Foster ‘s latest film, “Anna and the King.” Thai film censors today banned the box-office dud from the country for its reputed inaccurate and insulting representation of the 19th century monarch played in the film by Chow Yun-Fat.

Share Clarice (Jodie Foster) in The Silence of the Lambs NEXT Character Analysis Our heroic FBI trainee and stalker-stalker Clarice Ann Starling is direct, honest, determined—and smart enough to know when she should be scared spitless. She agrees to tangle with one of the most violent, brilliant, and dangerous criminals ever to practice psychiatry. Yeah, he's behind bars for now, but he's still a nightmare-worthy scary guy. Clarice isn't quite sure of herself at first, but she seems to know how to manage her insecurities in order to do what she has to do to get Lecter's cooperation and track down Buffalo Bill. Jodie Foster's Oscar-winning performance shows us both Clarice's vulnerabilities and her substantial strength. While most people don't typically encounter severed heads and otherwise mutilated bodies in their job, we all face struggles similar to what Clarice deals with. She wants to succeed in a world where the odds are stacked against her. She's a trainee. A fantastic one, but still a trainee, in a position where she has to work extra hard to earn respect. She's also a woman in a male-driven world, a small-town girl in a big-town job.

These things, complicated with a tragedy in her past, complicate Starling's journey more than your average girl-meets-boy-serial killer, girl-uses-boy-serial-killer-to-find-another-boy-serial-killer tale. Star Student Clarice is smart. Very smart—a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Virginia and obviously doing very well in her FBI training. But there are pros and cons to being really good at what you do. On the pro side, you get respect (not-so-coincidentally, respect is one of the major themes of the movie). On the con side, sometimes your instructors or superiors assign you a lot of more work. You might be called on to lead a group discussion, write extra papers, or interview a known serial killer who might bite your face off. That's where Clarice finds herself at the beginning of The Silence of the Lambs. The head of the Behavior Science Unit, Jack Crawford, gives her a job. "More of an interesting errand," he says. She's a stellar student, and Crawford knows she's up to the task.

And she manages to figure it out—with Lecter's help, sure, but she does a bang-up job of piecing together clues and intuition to track down Buffalo Bill and rescue his surviving captive. When she graduates from the Academy, everyone, including Lecter, is proud of her. The Brave One Crawford knows that Clarice isn't only smart, but he trusts her grit enough to assign her to a case involving two of the most deranged and dangerous men imaginable (three if you count the dirtbag Dr. Chilton). "Do you spook easily, Starling?" he asks her. She's nervous, yes, but if she gets spooked, she hides it well. Later, when finding a severed head, she describes her feelings as "Scared at first, then, exhilarated." She likes what she does, even when it involves finding body parts in jars. It's not like Clarice doesn't experience fear—in fact, she looks uneasy much of the time—but her curiosity makes her push through it. Just thinking about Hannibal Lecter is enough to keep most of us awake nights. He intimidates her, but she manages to stay on her feet. LECTER: Why do you think he takes their skins, Officer Starling?

Thrill me with your acumen. CLARICE: It excites him. Most serial killers keep some sort of trophies. DR. LECTER: I didn't. CLARICE: No. No, you ate yours. Even after Lecter zings Clarice with his uncanny insights about her rural West Virginia background ("You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Officer Starling?"), she doesn't wilt even though you can see her wince. Big Girls Don't Cry It's not completely clear why—maybe because her dad was a cop and she wanted to please him—but Clarice has chosen a traditionally male profession. She's the only important woman in the film, and she's surrounded by male psychiatrists, instructors, and cops. She puts up with a lot of condescension and intimidation and tries her best to deal with it. When the sleazy Dr. Chilton unsuccessfully tries to hit on her, then suggests that her instructor was clever to send a pretty young woman to get Lecter's sexual interest, she retorts, CLARICE: I graduated magna from UVA, Doctor. It's not a charm school. Oh, snap.

She also decides that she'd rather not have to deal with Dr. Chilton any more than absolutely necessary: CLARICE: Dr. Chilton, if Lecter feels you're his enemy as you've said, then maybe I'll have more luck by myself. What do you think? CHILTON: (annoyed) You might have suggested that in my office, and saved me the time. CLARICE: But then I would've missed the pleasure of your company. Even when meeting the terrifying Lecter for the first time, she manages not to fall apart in the face of his challenges: CLARICE: I'm still in training at the Academy. LECTER: Jack Crawford sent a trainee to me? CLARICE: We're talking about psychology, Doctor, not the Bureau. Can you decide for yourself whether or not I'm qualified? Clarice endures a lot from the men around her. She gets hit on by everyone from psychotic killers to psychiatrists and entomologists. (You know those entomologists—always bugging people.) We see her in an elevator looking small as she's surrounded by tall guys in uniforms, and we're constantly aware of men looking at her.

As she walks down the corridor of the state hospital, an inmate shouts obscenities and flings semen at her. In her first meeting with Lecter, she's sitting and he's standing, looking slightly down at her and gazing intently with his creepy, intimidating stare. ( Source ) Clarice comes into her own during the course of the film; one of her big moments is when she finds her authoritative voice and kicks the guys out of the autopsy room when they're staring at a victim's corpse: CLARICE: Excuse me! Excuse me, gentlemen! You officers and gentlemen, listen here now. Uh, there's things we need to do for her. I know that y'all brought her this far and that her folks would thank you if they could for your kindness and your sensitivity. And now please, go on now and lets us take care of her. Go on now. Thank you. You go, girl. Lambs, Chopped A brief scene in The Silence of the Lambs shows Clarice engaging in a practice FBI operation. She bursts into a room to save a captive, but someone pulls a fake gun on her and fake shoots her.

The instructor asks her, INSTRUCTOR: "Starling, where's your danger area?" CLARICE "In the corner, sir." INSTRUCTOR: "Did you check the corner?" CLARICE: "No, sir." INSTRUCTOR: "That's the reason you're dead." Clarice's "corner" is her family history. Raised by a single father, Clarice idolized her daddy, a sheriff. He was killed when Clarice was a young girl, and she was sent to live with relatives on a farm. When they slaughtered lambs, the screaming of the lambs drove Clarice crazy, and she tried to run away, but not without trying to save the lambs first. Even at this age, young Clarice didn't spook easily. "I was so scared to look inside, but I had to," she said, a skill which serves her well as an FBI agent. She couldn't save her lamb, though: CLARICE: "I thought if I could save just one, I thought… but… he was so heavy. He was so heavy." We learn all this this when Dr. Hannibal Lecter learns it in a bit of quid pro quo with Clarice Starling.

Quid pro quo being Latin for "most uncomfortable OKCupid profile survey ever." But by grilling Clarice like a lamb chop, he forces her to look into this dark corner of her past. "You think if you save poor Catherine, you can make them stop, don't you?" Lecter says. Lecter also susses out early on that even though she's smart and polished, she didn't come from a "good" family—he notes her cheap shoes and the hint of a rural West Virginia accent. He tells her that she ran far away from home, all the way to the FBI. You can see these comments strike home. It's these initial hints that make him probe Clarice for more of her stories and eventually reveals the episode with the lambs. We're meant to understand that Clarice's insecurities about coming from a small-town West Virginia drive her ambition to succeed at the Academy where she's an outsider because of her gender and her social class. Maybe she identifies with Bill's victim Frederika Bimmel, who left her own small town to look for work in Chicago. And by saving Catherine, Clarice can also save herself. Catherine's not the only damsel in peril in this film.

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) starring Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Ted Levine directed by Jonathan Demme - movie review on The Movie Scene Silence of the Starling A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti - Hannibal Lecter Back in 1991 a movie came out which got audiences flocking to the cinema, the movie was "The Silence of The Lambs". Now many years later "The Silence of The Lambs" is still as popular as ever as is Anthony Hopkins's chilling performances as Hannibal Lecter. From the performances through to the atmosphere and sense of foreboding horror pretty much everything about the movie works. Trainee FBI agent Clarice Starling ( Jodie Foster - The Accused ) is requested by the head of the FBI Behavioural Sciences department, Jack Crawford ( Scott Glenn - Silverado ) to assist in the hunt for Buffalo Bill, a serial killer who has been kidnapping, murdering and skinning young woman.

In an attempt to get inside the mind of the serial killer, Clarice is dispatched to the Baltimore Mental Institution to interview the imprisoned psychiatrist, Dr Hannibal Lecter ( Anthony Hopkins - Fracture ) who himself became a serial killer. As Clarice probes Lecter for information, she finds herself the subject of his amusement, as he toys with her emotions and gains information on her in return for his help. Although labelled a horror flick by some reviewers, "The Silence of The Lambs" is definitely not in the tradition of most slasher flicks, it is much more intelligent than that, with most of the scary moments coming from brilliantly built up suspense and the psychology of Lecter getting in to Starlings head. In reality it is a brilliant combination of several movie genres, firstly you have the detective side with the FBI in search of a serial killer, next you have the horror side with not only the gruesomeness of the serial killings but also the psychological side and finally it is also a coming of age movie, as we watch the character of Clarice grow from being a nervous recruit who is on the edge of failing and pressured out in a male orientated world into a confident woman in control of her destiny.

The story is based upon the novel "The Silence of the Lambs" by Thomas Harris and in my opinion is one of the best horror/thrillers from the last century. Even though some critics have ripped it apart and highlighted some of its flaws, I personally find it completely gripping on every level. In reality the movie has two story lines running through it. The first and in some ways the most prominent of them is the hunt for the serial killer Buffalo Bill, lead by Clarice Starling and assisted by imprisoned serial killer Dr Hannibal Lecter. Not that I am an expert in the psychology or the ways and means that either the FBI or a serial killer operates, but I found this side of "The Silence of The Lambs" completely engrossing, as we watch clues fall into place as the FBI search for Buffalo Bill. The fact that Buffalo Bill's latest victim is the daughter of a Senator helps heighten the tension and not once does this side of the story drag, keeping the pace of the movie at a perfect rate. The second side of "The Silence of The Lambs" concentrates on the character of Clarice Starling and her relationship with Dr Hannibal Lecter.

This in fact has two elements in itself; firstly we get to watch the character of Starling grow from a trainee FBI recruit who could possibly be on the verge of flunking out of the FBI, to a more confident woman. This is entwined with her relationship with Lecter as he manages to get inside her head with his psychological games and clues. This is definitely a very strong part of the movie and is no doubt down to the brilliant performances from Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins which makes it work so exceptionally well. Put all these elements together and you have in my opinion one of the best storylines for a movie from the last century. Neither one of the main elements takes precedence over the other, and in doing so work brilliantly together to make the movie thoroughly engrossing from start to finish. I've already brushed upon the performances of the two main leads but I cannot really express how crucial they are to the success of the movie, mainly because the interaction between the two was spot on perfect and so justified the Oscars that they each won for leading male and female performances. Jodie Foster puts in a brilliant performance as Clarice Starling and fits the character perfectly.

Quite often when you have a star in a major role you end up drawing similarities between their character and any previous characters which they have played. In the case of Clarice, Foster manages to make the character unique and not once did I find myself thinking I had seen her do the same performance elsewhere. The same can be said for Anthony Hopkins as he took a departure from his usual type of character to take on the scary Dr Lecter. With out doubt, Hopkins puts in one of his best performances as he manages to make Dr Lecter one of the scariest characters on screen I have seen in many years. Also making appearances in less prominent roles are Scott Glen, Ted Levine and Anthony Heald who all put in great performances which rather than detract from the overall enjoyment of the movie add to its overall pleasure. "The Silence of The Lambs" is directed by Jonathan Demme and again he thoroughly deserved the Oscar he won for best direction despite being up against the equally great Oliver Stone for "JFK". In a movie which I feel is close on being perfect, it is hard for me to pick just one thing which I feel Demme did exceptionally well, and it would take to long to discuss every single thing which he did right in the film.

If I had to pick one, it would have to be the manner in which he creates suspense throughout the movie, in some ways very similar to the style of Hitchcock. Just when you are being sucked into what is happening on screen, something unexpected happens which has you jumping in shock, tie this in to the fact that he never shows you the actual horror which is taking place, but uses sounds and lighting to fuel your own imagination to scare yourself, and you have a perfect movie packed with suspense. What this all boils down to is that "The Silence of The Lambs" was and some 20 years after it's release still is a magnificent movie. It has a brilliant storyline which is held together brilliantly by some stunning performances and the characters are some of the most memorable in cinematic history. I have lost count of the number of times I have watched it, but each time it is as engrossing, suspenseful and enjoyable as the first. Demme's direction is brilliant and it was no surprise that Hopkins went on to reprise his role of Hannibal Lecter in the following two films "Hannibal" and "Red Dragon".

Latest Movie Reviews CrazED Critiques: Silence of the Lambs - YouTube CrazED Critiques: Silence of the Lambs Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Apr 25, 2013 A review for a very famous crime thriller film starring Jodie Foster as the tormented but very strong FBI agent Clarice Starling as well as Anthony Hopkins as the vicious confined serial killer Hannibal Lector. A shocking suspensful psychological thrill ride with some of the best acting winning the top Academy Awards plus spawning a sequel and two prequels. this cinematic masterpiece must not be missed. Category Amazon.com: The Hannibal Lecter Collection (Manhunter / Silence of the Lambs / Hannibal) [Blu-ray]: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Rhys Ifans, Li Gong, William Petersen, Lawrence A. Bonney, Kasi Lemmons, Lawrence T.

Wrentz, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Jonathan Demme, Michael Mann, Peter Webber, Ridley Scott, David Mamet, Steven Zaillian, Ted Tally: Movies & TV Product Description Manhunter Witness the birth of evil. This "stomach-tightening" (The Washington Post ) thriller from writer/director Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider ) first introduced the world to the cunning, unforgettable serial killer named Hannibal. Joan Allen and Stephen Lang costar in this "eerie, very intense" (New York ), "dark locomotive of a film" (Los Angeles Times ) that promises to "keep viewers riveted" (Time )! Former FBI profiler Will Graham (William Petersen, CSI ) reluctantly returns to his old job to track a horrific serial killer known as the "Tooth Fairy." But in order to get into the mind of this maniac, Graham must face another: Hannibal, the imprisoned psychiatrist whose own insanity almost cost Graham his life...and whose insights into the "Tooth Fairy" could prove as dangerous as the killer himself! The Silence of the Lambs A psychopath nicknamed Buffalo Bill is murdering women across the Midwest.

Believing it takes one to know one, the FBI sends Agent Clarice Starling (Foster) to interview a demented prisoner who may provide clues to the killer's actions. That prisoner is psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins), a brilliant, diabolical cannibal who agrees to help Starling only if she'll feed his morbid curiosity with details of her own complicated life. As their relationship develops, Starling is forced to confront not only her own hidden demons, but also an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to stop it! Hannibal Anthony Hopkins is "perverse perfection" (Rolling Stone) in his return to the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the sophisticated killer who comes out of hiding to draw FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) into a high-stakes battle that will test her strength, cunning and loyalty. Amazon.com Manhunter Though it will always be remembered as the movie featuring the "other" Hannibal Lecter, Michael Mann's 1986 thriller Manhunter is nearly as good as The Silence of the Lambs, and in some respects it's arguably even better.

Based on Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon, which introduced the world to the nefarious killer Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter, the film stars William Petersen (giving a suitably brooding performance) as ex-FBI agent Will Graham, who is coaxed out of semiretirement to track down a serial killer who has thwarted the authorities at every turn. Graham's approach to the case is a perilous one. First he seeks counsel with Lecter (Brian Cox) in the latter's high-security prison cell--an encounter that is utterly horrifying in its psychological effect--and then he begins to mold his own psyche to that of the killer, with potentially devastating results. As directed by Mann (who was at the acme of his success with TV's Miami Vice), this sophisticated cat-and-mouse game never resorts to the compromise of cheap thrills. Predating Anthony Hopkins's portrayal of Lecter by four years, Cox plays the character closer to Harris's original, lower-key conception, and he's no less compelling in the role.

Petersen is equally well cast, and as always Mann employs rock music to astonishing effect, using nearly all of Iron Butterfly's heavy-metal epic "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" to accompany the film's heart-stopping climactic sequence. All of this makes Manhunter one of the finest films of its kind, as well as further proof that Harris's fiction is a blessing to any filmmaker brave enough to adapt it. --Jeff Shannon The Silence of the Lambs Based on Thomas Harris's novel, this terrifying film by Jonathan Demme really only contains a couple of genuinely shocking moments (one involving an autopsy, the other a prison break). The rest of the film is a splatter-free visual and psychological descent into the hell of madness, redeemed astonishingly by an unlikely connection between a monster and a haunted young woman. Anthony Hopkins is extraordinary as the cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, virtually entombed in a subterranean prison for the criminally insane. At the behest of the FBI, agent-in-training Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) approaches Lecter, requesting his insights into the identity and methods of a serial killer named Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine).

In exchange, Lecter demands the right to penetrate Starling's most painful memories, creating a bizarre but palpable intimacy that liberates them both under separate but equally horrific circumstances. Demme, a filmmaker with a uniquely populist vision (Melvin and Howard, Something Wild), also spent his early years making pulp for Roger Corman (Caged Heat), and he hasn't forgotten the significance of tone, atmosphere, and the unsettling nature of a crudely effective close-up. Much of the film, in fact, consists of actors staring straight into the camera (usually from Clarice's point of view), making every bridge between one set of eyes to another seem terribly dangerous. --Tom Keogh Hannibal Yes, he's back, and he's still hungry. Ten years after The Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter (Anthony Hopkins, reprising his Oscar-winning role) is living the good life in Italy, studying art and sipping espresso.

FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore, replacing Jodie Foster), on the other hand, hasn't had it so good--an outsider from the start, she's now a quiet, moody loner who doesn't play bureaucratic games and suffers for it. A botched drug raid results in her demotion--and a request from Lecter's only living victim, Mason Verger (Gary Oldman, uncredited), for a little Q and A. Little does Clarice realize that the hideously deformed Verger--who, upon suggestion from Dr. Lecter, peeled off his own face--is using her as bait to lure Dr. Lecter out of hiding, quite certain he'll capture the good doctor. Taking the basic plot contraptions from Thomas Harris's baroque novel, Hannibal is so stylistically different from its predecessor that it forces you to take it on its own terms. Director Ridley Scott gives the film a sleek, almost European look that lets you know that, unlike the first film (which was about the quintessentially American Clarice), this movie is all Hannibal. Does it work? Yes--but only up to a point.

Scott adeptly sets up an atmosphere of foreboding, but it's all buildup for anticlimax, as Verger's plot for abducting Hannibal (and feeding him to man-eating wild boars) doesn't really deliver the requisite visceral thrills, and the much-ballyhooed climatic dinner sequence between Clarice, Dr. Lecter, and a third unlucky guest wobbles between parody and horror. Hopkins and Moore are both first-rate, but the film contrives to keep them as far apart as possible, when what made Silence so amazing was their interaction. When they do connect it's quite thrilling, but it's unfortunately too little too late. --Mark Englehart Special Features Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor White Trash You will receive an email shortly to confirm your email address.

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Question: In which film did Jodie Foster play FBI agent Clarice Starling?
Answer: The Silence of the Lambs